So many groups remain repressed in every country in this world - because of their gender, or race, or political affiliation, or because they have a disease or a condition that is considered a stigma, or for so many other reasons.

This is a core belief, normally unconscious, and recognition of it usually brings up what Freud called the repressed, though Freud elicited repressed material and dealt with it in ways very different from Hakomi.

Our "shadow," as C.G. Jung called the repressed hidden and often projected aspect of the personality, tends to assume a life of its own because it is composed of the parts of myself I don't acknowledge and therefore can't integrate into my conscious life.